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Castleton Commodities: Hunlock Creek

Year Planned: 2029

Utility Provider: UGI Utilities

Castleton Commodities International bought the gas-fired Hunlock Creek Energy Center from UGI in November 2024 and named data center development as an option for the site. UGI Utilities is engineering an upgrade at its Hunlock Creek substation to serve a large new customer in two phases, from late 2027 and late 2029. No data center application has been filed.

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November 2024: Castleton Commodities buys the Hunlock Creek Energy Center from UGI.

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Sites within 15 miles of Castleton Commodities: Hunlock Creek

Distance	Site	About
4.97 miles	Fit Energy: Newport Township Data Center	Fit Energy plans a 15-building data center campus with on-site gas and fuel cell power on quarry land in Newport Township, Luzerne County.
10.37 miles	Hub GammaInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
10.50 miles	Talen: Nautilus Cryptomine	A former bitcoin mining facility on the Susquehanna nuclear campus near Berwick that Talen Energy stopped using in June 2025; Amazon Web Services plans to demolish it.
11.40 miles	Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
11.46 miles	4-3 Glennbrook: Salem 3 Campus	A planned data center campus in Salem Township, Luzerne County, assembled by 4-3 Glennbrook Group west of the QTS campus.
12.46 miles	Brewster Land: Dorrance Township	Brewster Land Company is pursuing data center zoning for land in Dorrance Township, Luzerne County.
18.34 miles	Outrigger: Mifflinville Powered Land	Outrigger Industrial's powered land site near Interstate 80 in Mifflinville, Columbia County, approved for one data center building.
18.50 miles	Project Hazelnut	NorthPoint Development's planned 15-building data center campus in Hazle Township's Humboldt North Industrial Park, now in court after the township denied its plan.
18.84 miles	West Hazleton Data Center	Land owned by One Trinity Real Estate Investments behind the Valmont Shopping Plaza in West Hazleton, Luzerne County, is being marketed as a potential data center site.

Operating Company

Castleton Commodities International (CCI) is a privately owned energy commodities merchant and infrastructure asset investor headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. Management and private investors have owned the company since 2012. Its merchant business trades natural gas, power, oil and oil products, and its asset business invests in power plants, battery storage and transmission.

In Pennsylvania, CCI owns the gas-fired Hunlock Creek Energy Center in Luzerne County. Local press reported in 2026 that CCI is exploring data center development at the site.

Castleton Commodities International History:

In 2026, CCI acquired the Linden Variable Frequency Transformer in New Jersey, which links the PJM and NYISO grids.
In November 2024, CCI bought the Hunlock Creek Energy Center in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, from UGI.
In 2015, CCI acquired the global oil merchanting business of Morgan Stanley.
In 2012, management and private investors acquired the company and renamed it Castleton Commodities International.
In 2006, Highbridge Capital Management took a minority stake, and the company became Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy.
Founded in 1997 as the energy merchant subsidiary of the Louis Dreyfus Group.

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